DescriptionWithin her novels," Kindred" and "Lilith’s Brood", Octavia Butler uses the idea of ethno-maternity to explore the ways in which matrilineal relationships between black women can act as way to break free from white supremacist heteropatriarchal structures and allow black women full subjectivity. Between these two texts, Butler explores the ways in which ethno-maternity and a reliance on maternal memory both helps the black female body work through the trauma of remembering slavery, but also helps black women deconstruct the institutionalized gendered hierarchies of colonialism.